Propagation: first attempt at growing hibiscus from seed, 1 by starlight1153

starlight1153 wrote:
Janet.... I don't know the cultivars like Mike would, but know what you have isn't the real texas Star. I agre e with Mike too, that I wouldn't direct sow them in the garden. Critter s or birds or anything would walk away with them.

I got mine to germinate in thre e days sowing in the house. Got my seed that Mike so genrously share d some seed with me under the lights and in fact today they getting pricke d out and put in pots and gettign their first take of outside air and with any luck their first taste of rain. Such cute little babies. : )

Carolyn sent me a couple of month sago a coupel of cuttings of this hibiscus that she had rooted. They ha d lost the pakage in the mail for awhile. I potte d them up and have ha d them under a big tre e in the just about toal shade so that they could take ther e time and get established.

I really didn't expect them to do anythign but grow a bit more this year, so I was surprised when it started putting out some tiny pods. For weeks and weeks thos e pod s have tease d me. Been torture I tell ya. Everyday I would go out and it would send just a tiny touch of color. Everyday I would go out and I felt like a physical trainer saying " come on.. come on.. you can do it. flex them petals now. " LOL I wa s even tempted to take the bloom and pry the petals apart just to se e what it wa s hiding.

The first pic gonan be yesterday morning if thing s work out fine. The secodn pic gonna be what I foudn this morning. I danced all over the place. The bloom's not as big as Carolyn's mother plant cuz this it first year here, so I can't wait til next year. Every petal as a cream streak on it.

Carolyn said she thought it was called 'Morning Delight'. Are these what ya call tropical hibiscus? Also, does anybody know if they make seed or have viable pollen? I knwo that if I pollinate it, even self it that it won't come true, but wonder what some babie s might look like if it can be crossed with my Luna White?

Since it a young and new cutting I am kind a afraid to set pods on it, may try and set oen pod on the last bloom it has, but if it has viable pollen then I can use that to pollinate the other type sof hibiscus with.

Carolyn sent me a pic of her Texas Star from her yard to upload for ya to see too Janet. it looks like Mike's and all the other one's I have seen.

Mike... I can feel for ya. We have some not so nice neighbor's in our area too. They drive all of us crazy and when I am gone they will come and steal plants out of the yard. If they aske d I would share. Many a time I have just abotu broken an ankle form not seign oen of their hole s they dug from a grab and run. They really ticke d me of f when they took a load of shasta Daisies I had all roote d and grown for a group of Katrina victims for there yard. Had to start over and make them all new ones. , but ya know. I ignore them and people like that and keep going. Lor d knows I am not perfect, but I try and do the best I can and follow His teachings. I turn them kind a people over to Him and someday they will get their just due. You just hang in there. You got God and His Angels on yoru shoulders. : )

Ok now for the picture show. hopefully : )

First up Carolyn;'s Texas Star. resized and uploadign it for her. It rainign at her place now so she wil be roudn in a bit.